----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nicholas Weaver" <[email protected]>
To: "George Barwood" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Nicholas Weaver" <[email protected]>; "Matt Larson" 
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Should root-servers.net be signed

>On Mar 19, 2010, at 12:21 AM, George Barwood wrote:
>> I suggest the default value in BIND for max-udp-size should be 1450.
>> This appears to be best practice.
>> Since few zones are currently signed, it's not too late to make this change.
>> Later on it may be more difficult.


>Actually, I'd say this ONLY for the root and TLDs.  For the rest, the onus 
>should be on the resolver to discover that it can't handle fragmentation and 
>>adjust the MTU appropriately.

There are advantages besides messages being lost.
It also prevents spoofing of fragments, and limits amplification attacks.
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